You do realise they were supposed to return on the next crew rotation in Feb?
Which was on a Crew Dragon that the delivery is late on.
So that's on Musk's company. Now that looks bad. They can't even rescue them because SpaceX are running late.
Which was on a Crew Dragon that the delivery is late on.
So that's on Musk's company. Now that looks bad. They can't even rescue them because SpaceX are running late.
Secondly, NASA announced in December that SpaceX will return them in Boeing’s place in late March, which SpaceX is still on-time for. SpaceX is having to shuffle stuff around to accommodate this because they didn’t plan for having to pick up Boeing’s slack. Why don’t you go ask Boeing how long they’d take to get another unscheduled Starliner up there. It’d be literally years.
If you would please edit out swipes from your HN posts as the guidelines request (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), we'd appreciate it.
Your comment would be fine without that bit. (Well, the "Why don't you go ask Boeing" is also a little swipey.)